borderer

[ bawr-der-er ]

noun
  1. a person who dwells on or near the border of a country, region, etc.

Origin of borderer

1
First recorded in 1485–95; border + -er1

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How to use borderer in a sentence

  • Peaceable, friendly Indians were massacred by bands of ruffian borderers, organized for vengeance as well as protection.

    Four American Indians | Edson L. Whitney
  • On their left the borderers with their long spears charged home with such determination that they broke Sir Edmund Howard's line.

    Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
  • The English borderers, on their part, regarded the Indians less as men than as vicious and dangerous wild animals.

  • But Mr. Bryant resolved that he would go west by the way of Tecumseh, no matter if fifty thousand Borderers were encamped there.

    The Boy Settlers | Noah Brooks
  • The most infallible specific, however, is a bulb known to all the borderers by the name of "Seneca root."

British Dictionary definitions for borderer

borderer

/ (ˈbɔːdərə) /


noun
  1. a person who lives in a border area, esp the border between England and Scotland

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